A woman climbed a barbed wire fence at Halifax Stanfield International
Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on Sunday with the intention to stop
the plane she thought was carrying her husband, said a Royal Canadian
Mounted Police spokesman.
"Her intent was to stop the aircraft from taking off," said Sgt. Al
LeBlanc. "She jumped the security fence, but she was nowhere near the
aircrafts. The airport staff and the Mounted Police responded right
away and apprehended her."
The woman climbed over a 10-foot security fence with angled barb wire
around 8:30 a.m. local time, according to Peter Spurway, the airport's
communications vice president.
"She was immediately spotted by the aircraft control tower. One of our
folks was on the area and apprehended her. She was in the airfield for
10 minutes. We had a small aircraft in the area and the traffic
control tower rerouted the aircraft," said Spurway.
Spurway said the woman then told police that she believed her husband
was on an aircraft, and she was trying to stop him.
"This is a very unusual type of incident. I had never heard of such an
incident before in my many years as an officer," said LeBlanc.
Police took the woman to the hospital for a medical assessment.
According to LeBlanc, she suffered minor injuries from scaling the fence.
The 37-year-old woman is a resident of the Fall River, a small
suburban community southwest of the airport. LeBlanc said her husband
was not a passenger on any plane and criminal charges are unlikely.
The airport is conducting a full review of their security measures,
according to Spurway. "This is a very rare occurrence. I have been
here over eight years and this has never happened," he said.
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